YouTube Mobile uploads up 400% since launch of iPhone 3GS

YouTube said today that mobile uploads are up 400 percent since Friday, when the 3GS went on sale. This is part of a larger 1700 percent increase over the last six months, which YouTube said is fueled by, “new video-enabled phones on the market, improvements to the upload flow when you post a video to YouTube from your phone, and a new feature on YouTube that allows your videos to be quickly and effortlessly shared through your social networks.”

So mobile uploads are going through the roof, but the appearance of the iPhone 3GS, with its new video camera, is just throwing more fuel on the fire. That’s not quite surprising. The ability to do a quick upload to YouTube from your iPhone film reel makes it extremely easy to get videos up on the Web.

Some have speculated whether this is a bad thing for YouTube and parent Google. All these videos are very hard to place advertising against and they only add to Google’s storage costs.

I talked to a YouTube spokesman last week who downplayed those concerns and said the more videos, the better for YouTube. I’m not sure a whole bunch more dog and kitten videos is necessarily a good thing but that’s where we’re headed.